Category: personal story

Do you still think it’s still a man’s world when it comes to entrepreneurship? Here are a few women who are changing these perspectives from across the world. The spaces reserved by women in our collective history are not revered enough. They do not age well. When you hear the name Winston Churchill, the dominant…

Warren Buffett, with a net worth of over 8 billion US dollars, has quite a reputation for knowing where to invest. His accumulated successes have driven him to become the fourth wealthiest individual in the world. This is not a small feat. Mr. Buffett’s extravagant achievements have come from shrewd personal perspectives that had given…

Warren Buffett believes that the worst investment he ever made was buying Dexter Shoes in 1993 which resulted in a loss of $3.5 billion to Berkshire shareholders. In his letter to the shareholders, he quoted a line from country singer Bobby Bare to explain his feelings on the failed acquisition: I’ve never gone to bed…

There isn’t a time like the middle age to come to terms with the fact that you need to spend and save intelligently. This is the point in time you realise that all the dreams that you had laid out for your family in your late twenties are about to come through. But at the…

It is speculated that the first recorded use of money was by the Lydians in 600 BC. Incidentally, the first coin that was ever made had featured a roaring lion. Looking at the world today, the concept of money is still basked in the exact tone of intimidating aggression an ancient tribe had once deemed…

It’s no mean task; to rescue and rehabilitate children who’ve had a bad start in life. And that is exactly what Sarath Babu, a former railway clerk at the Nellore station does through his organisation, CHILD Ashram. Some of the rescued children have grown up to become scientists, police officers and professors while the 120 children at his organisation lovingly call him “Daddy” because he believed in them when no one else did. Such is the power of guidance and love!

Habits are undeniably powerful. They say that if you practice or follow something for 21 days, it becomes a habit that remains with you for a long period of time. Humans are creatures of habit but the problem with most of us is that we give up too soon before we make positive actions a habit. Habits take some time to show results. If it were that easy, everybody would be successful! All you need to do is make small changes to your day-to-day life and stick with it. And just like that, you’ll see your life transform for the better! Here, we introduce you to some of the powerful habits of successful people that you too can incorporate into your daily routine.

The story of every middle-class Indian kid growing up is pretty much the same. Those monthly shopping and movie trips with the entire family in tow where your parents picked out the baggiest jeans for your ‘outings’, those Bata shoes before the new academic year began, those “tu kitni badi ho gayi hai, kal hi tho kareedha tha” everytime mom realises you’ve outgrown your school uniform. And amidst all that there is dad. Unflinching. One thing common to most dads is their financial wisdom. Haven’t we all watched our dads do the family accounts, budgeting and spending hours poring over sheets of numbers that made absolutely no sense to us as kids? But through it all, we pick up certain pearls of financial wisdom like the ones below.

The story about a wealthy businessman in Brazil who wanted to bury his beloved Bentley became an internet sensation in 2013. But the real reason he pulled such an absurd stunt left many speechless. Here’s the story of Thane Chiquinho Scarpa and the beautiful reason behind the ‘funeral’ of his car.